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New Book Depicts Nicaraguan Political Prisoners’ Resistance

My brother, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, writes of his one year, seven months & eighteen days in Nicaragua’s “El Chipote” jail & under house arrest

Some time ago, I read that in societies under totalitarian rule, either dissidence or delinquency develops.

In the official “summer mode,” people do not stay at home with a candle or a generator to overcome the blackouts.

Despite its rapid failure, the military rebellion this week in Bolivia will have political consequences for the country.

It would strengthen learning from a much more systemic and comprehensive perspective, through environmental, civic, and financial education.

The imposition of military service for young women who want to study the degree reduces the number of interested students.

The Havana pimp was the dandy who dazzled everyone while riding his white steed or walking his greyhounds through the streets of the capital.

Forty-five years after the joyful victory over the Somoza dictatorship, the country isn’t celebrating a triumph, but reliving a Deja vu.

For Chavismo in power, as the dictatorship in Cuba has long done, massive emigration was interpreted as an escape valve.

The sea level has not risen. The coastline has not sunk. Cuba is sinking due to decades of neglect, decades of abandonment.